Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1936 — Page 1

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-WARY VOTE s 111 be cast ■ERE TUESDAY ;U|. — K4l'l ,n- Ve Made Tolor Primary ilp ; W U 0 ■ Election be ■ m i - ~ ■'>•■ t, "‘ a,l “ "‘"KL j C p. in. K or.’.v ' ' ll ,1 "‘ 'iv ti< k<‘t ■E’fl. lilkp: .. i Jn.U'. i ", • ■^^K f., ■ w.ml of Au ! ' r " i 1 1! "'’" “ f . - ■ 19EK.. JMHL tickets. .inn .tis- l.i'.b tt-.t Hi~MEK WON AL FIRE PCHOOLMAYI2 l ire School B Will Be Held Here ■ | Next Week regional fire school will ■ ■ in 'ln- , itv, Tuesday. May K*t I •■ . on South Km* -' I’. - Chief Charles annn'ineed today. fire prevention M.-mbers t'l-mi.lr h' , li <ll.l' . i ii... in fl:,- tiulit'tiu and fir.' were \ii..<l A special was exn-nfled to mem'l'" 'i-neral Electric firentt io attend the nuirn of these Regional I is being held in each Kutfacl iln neighboring lines io have iheir firemen least one day. ■■ sponsored by tli. Northern Indiana IndusV ..nnteer Firemen's State Fire Marshal DeTim s< honl comes here fc®T ;ln >' exp. use to the city or q^^K o ' l to anyone as the exB* IB defrayed entirely by the '^BfI'*' 1 '*' marshal department. All is the cooperation of d. pai tnients and city ofl'iEmmett. T. Cox 1 " J. O'Brien are men with of experience in fire anit department work K. served in the highest their respective departattendance thie year on page six) r«tur Clean-Up Week Is Opened Kw , l '' nual Clean ->>P week in Deivil fcu 0 ' 1 '•' llay iIS Ra >P h Ro «l’' Ptrai '' H comniiss >oner, put an Be aw^° f men to aseist in haulBat tri's 'u traa '’' He asked today Kjt£_ . , nlac ed in containers ■ May ° 6 h an(R6 <l easily. R. Ho’thouse has ;^K r , that citizens clean up '^K -'"'wes. pai nt (buildings and F<wh« n(bned shacks and tWi for e n er ' p<)Bßlble in pre■‘yps tv DMatur ' g 100th birth,y n «t August.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Transfer Pastor Rev. M. W. Sundermann, pastor of the First Evangelical church in this city for eight years, Sunday was transferred to Celina. Ohio. He will bo replaced here by the Rev. G. S. Ixtzier of the Broadway Evangelical church. Indiauajiolis. GENEVA SCHOOL ENDS THURSDAY Commencement Exercises Will Be Held Thursday Nijrht County school activities will he brought to a cluse on Thursday night with the commencement exerclee of the Geneva high school. The evercises will be held in the Geneva M. E. church at 7:30 •.■•’clock with Dr. F. H. Rwpnow delivering the commencement address. •It will be necessary to hold the exercises in the church instead of the school auditorium as has been the custom, sin e the new consolidated building is not completed. The ■old school building wae torn <'. wn after being condemned for further use. ■Baccalaureate services were held in the Geneva United Brethren church last evening for the class. The Rev. I. L. Curtis was the eipeaker- A-class of 4<> seniors is seheshrted to graduate on Thursday night, one of the largest ever to graduate ' fro.n Geneva school. Thone who are to receive their diplomas; Vivian Arnold, Charles lAspy, Donald Aapy, Carl Augsburger, Tkrnias Bierly. William Briggs. Clarence Buckingham, Ralph Burke. Jannita Burriys, Modjecka Butcher, Pearl Butcher, Mary Ellen Callahan, Bernice Chew. Clyde Cook. Clara Farlow, Laban Penning. Raymond Fields. Martha Gerber, Ella Glendenning. Phi’ip Greene. Jerome Hawbaker, Ralph Hoffman, Majeska Ineichen, Kaese.r, Elizabeth Linton, j Floyd Lehman, Amos Moore. Ruby Nelson, Robert Nevil, Kathryn Pyle. Joseph Ralston, James Schell. Joseph Sheipherd, I- uise Sommer. Martha Speicher, G r etchen Stucky, Eloise Sullivan. Elaine Teeple. Violet Teeter and Pauline Voes. Decatur Ministers To Meet Wednesday The Decatr Ministerial association will meet at the Presbyterian church Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. o DEATH CLAIMS BERNE WOMAN Mrs. Peter Burkhalter Dies Saturday At Home In Berne Mrs. Maria Burkhalter, 84, died at her home in Berne Saturday evening at 9:15 o’clock. Death wae due to infirmities of old age. The deceased was born in Putnai.f county, Ohio. November 8. 1851, a daughter of Christian and Barbara Luginbil l . She had lived in Berne and community since her marriage to Peter Burkhalter, October 22, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Burkhalter celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary October 22, 1934•Surviving besides the husband are the following children. Amos, Menno and Rachael of Berne. MrsLydia Baumgartner, Fort Wayne, Mrs. Carolina Zook, Berne. Mrs. Mary Sprunger, Berne, Lavina Ix>s Angeles, Cal., and a daughter Martha, w!*?. is a missionary in India. A sister, Barbara Luginbill of Pandora, Ohio, also survives. Font children preceded the mother in death. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p. m- at the home and at 2 o’clock at the Mennonite church, with burial in the M. R E cemetery.

REV. LOZIER APPOINTED TO LOCAL CHURCH Succeeds Rev.M.W. Sundermann .Transferred To Celina The Rev. M. W. Sundermann, pastor of the Evangelical church here and the Calvary Evangelical church, east of Decatur, for the last eight years, was transferred to Celina, Ohio, Sunday at the annual Indiana conference of the Evangelical church held la.st week at Rochester. Parts of Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio are included In the Indiana conference. The Rev. G. S. Ixrzler, pastor of the Indianapolis Broadway Evangelical church, wa» transferred here. The Rev. F. I). Steman of Linn Grove and the Rev. M. O. Herman of Berne, were sent, back to their charges In those cities. Rev. Sundermann came to Decatur eight years ago from the First Evangelical church at South Bend. His wife died two years later. He has four children: Arthur A. James, in high school here; Esther, a graduate from the Ohio Northern University last spring and now at home; Mrs. Ruth. Boucher of Boston. Massachusetts, a graduate of Northwestern University, and Mrs. Na/imi Hosterman, prominent artist of Charleston, West Virginia. Mrs. Hosterman s work has been exhibited at the Hoosier Salon in Chicago, and now on exhibit at •the Rockefeller Center, International building, in New York. She is now in Decatur and will a.ssist the family in arranging their new home in Celina. Rev. Sundermann will preach his la-st sermon here next Sunday. The Rev. and Mrs. Imzier plan to come to the city next week. He will preach his first sermon here (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEATH CLAIMS JOHN MYERS Blue Creek Township Farmer Died Saturday At Hospital John Myers. 64. prominent Blue Creek township farmer died at the Adams county memorial hospital Saturday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock from the effects of an infection. His leg wae amputated eight weeks ago in an effort to etap the spread of the infection. Mr. Myers was born in Blue Creek townellip in January, 1872 where he had lived all hie life. His parents were Jacob and Nancy Myers. He was married to Miss Mary Merriman. who survives. Surviving besides the widow are two children, Mabel and Charles both at home. One son. Harvey, is Theieie one surviving brother, Fred of Blue Creek township. Three sinters are living. Mrs. Emma Connerman of Blue Creek townnhip; Mrs. Manda Workinger of Blue Creek township and Mrs. Della Frank of Washington township. One sister. Mrs- Cindy Ainsworth, is deceased. Mro. Myers was a member -of the Union U. B. church. Funeral services will be held ,at the home Tuesday at 10 o’clock EST and at the Union U. B. church at 10:30 o’clock EST. Rev. Braggs, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Tricker cemetery. The body has been removed front the Lobenstein funeral parlors in Monroe and may be viewed until the time es the funeral. o— — "" Divorce Granted In Local Court Judge Huber M. DeVass Saturday afternoon granted a divorce to Sherman L. Rhodes from Lillian Rhodes, on the grounds o cruel and inhuman treatment. The defendant failed to appear and an answer wan filed iby the prosecuting attorney as provided by law. The iplaintiff was ordered not to remarry for two yeans. A divorce suit was filed by Ethel Gaffer against Edmund Gaffer on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Three previous emits have been dismissed. A fourth suit was filed cn April 14 and has not been diemissed. A suit for divorce waa filed by Arthur Mayer agalmst Violet Mayer on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.

ONLY DAILY NEW SPA PE R IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May I, 1936.

Truck Overturns In Decatur Sunday iA large truck loaded with merchandise and belonging to the Ludlow Market Trucking company of Hamilton, Ohio, overturned at the Interesctlon of Second street and federal road 2* in the northern purt of the city at about 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The load of ab'uit five tons of name waa not learned .stated that the truck hit a bump and the steering gear locked in a partly turned portion, thus causing the upset. The load o about five tons ct beaus and potatoes was taken on by another truck, along with the driver, and the damaged truck hauled to a local garage. The truck was twisted out of line conn ide raibly. FRANCES CASE DIES SUNDAY Miss Frances Gase Dies At Home Near Decatur SundayMiss Frans ee Case, 25, died at the heme of her father, one-half mile southwest of Decatur, Sunday morning at 11:45 o'clock. She had been in poor health or the pact six years but her immediate death was due to pneumonia The deceased was born April 10, 1911, a daughter of Edward and France® Gase She was graduated from the St. Joseph high school with the class of '27 and was emp’.cyed for three years by the law firm of Fruchte and Litterer. She was a member of the St. Agnes Sodality and the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Due to ill health she had spent the past six yeans at home. She is survived by the father, Edward Gase and an aunt. Miss Clara Eiting. Her mother preceded her in death'April 10, 1911. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 8:3O> a. m. at the residence and at 9 ok'iock at the St. Marys Catholic church with Rev. Joseph Hennes officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery. The body will be returned from the Black funeral home th:® evening and may be viewed after 7 o'cl-.x-k. . a .. ■■ Decoration Committee Meets Here Tonight The decorations committee of the Centennial celebration will meet at the city hall at 7:30 o’clock tonight. Every member of the committee is atked to be (present, as contracts for de«> rations will be considered tonight. Q— County Board Allows Claims The 'Adams county commissioners in regular monthly session, today allowed (claims against the county Rending Hie organization of the new county welfare board the commiss'. ners will continue to pay old age pension®. However, no new pensions will be allowed or charges made in old pensions until that time. Tuesday, the commissioners will receive bids on a new repairing outfit for the county highway department. The specifications call for an apparatus heated by coal .cil which is portable and has a sprayer for black top materials. It will be ueed to repair bad place® in county roads 5-Y EAR-OLD LAD KILLED DI AUTO Adams County Lad. Driver Os Car, Is Absolved Os Blame Benny, the five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harmon vs near Rochester, died Sunday at 9:30 p. m. of injuries sustained when he was strut k by a car driven by Leon Meshberger, 21, eon of Harry Meshberger of Linn Grove. The accident occurred late Sunday afternoon on state road 14, one and one-fourth miles north cf (Akron. The boy had been gathering mushrooms when he suddenly walked across the road in front of the Meshberger car. Mr. Meshberger (picked the boy up and took him to a (physician's office where it wae found the lad had sustained a fractured skull and tw.o (broken arms. Mr. Meehberger reported the accident to officials who absolved him of al! blame. With Mr- Meshberger were his sister, Betty, Eloise Amstutz of Linn Grove and Herman Neueuscbwamder of Berne- The party was enroute home from the Indiana Evangelical church conference at Rochester-

THREE PERSONS NAME BRADY AS HOLDUP KILLER r Named As Piqua, Ohio, Slayer; Auto Driver Identified Indianapolis. May 4.--KU.R)- Three! persons, whose names police refused to disclose, toduy identified Alfred Brady, murder suspect, us the bandit who killed Edward Lindsey in a grocery store robbery at Piqua, Ohio, .March 21. Sheriff Kenneth V. Miller of Miami county, Ohio, who brought the witnesses here, said he would seek a first degree murder indictment against Brady, a former Hoosier farm boy, whose criminal career parallels that of the late John Dillinger. Identify Driver Indianapolis, May 4. -(U.PJ- Identification of George Whitley, Indianapolis, us the driver of the automobile in which the slayers of Richard Rivers, police sergeant, escaped a week ago, was announced by authorities. Whitley was identified by a woman, whose name police withheld, as the man she saw at the wheel of a gray sedan parked in front of the Office of Dr. E. E. Rose, where the gun battie in which Rivers was slain, occured. . Previously, Whitley, had been held on vagrancy charges under |20,000 bond. Dr. Rose was to be asked to attempt to identify him today. Rose previously was said to have identified Al Brady, 25, who confessed to police that he was in the physician's office arranging treatment for a companion who had been wounded in a Lima, 0., jewelry store robbery. Bday will be arraigned in municipal court May 12 and charged with the murder of Rivers. Meanwhile, police continued their search for three other mem(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ————o —— WILL ATTEND CLUB ROUNDUP Prize Winners Will Attend 4-H Club RoundUp At Purdue Prize winners for 4-H club work in Adams county are planning to | attend the annual 4-H club RoundI Up at Purdue University fiom Wednesday until Saturday. The trip® are awarded to the boy® and girls for outstanding club werk each yearThose who wiP make the trip and the fields in which they excelled are: Beatrice Mathye, Wabash township; junior leadership, canning and clothe®, student at the state fair two years agoVera Schwartz. Monroe township; junior leadership, clothing, student at state fair school. Louis Bleeke, Union township, raised 104 bushels of corn to the acre last year. Harriet Kunkel, Root township, clothing. Joel Habegger, Monroe township, junior leadership, president of calf club two years. Robert Fuhrman. Decatur, potato ■club three years, junior leader in boys work in DecaturLeo Nussbaum, Monroe township, ca'f and corn clubs, president of the crops club, the Monroe Sod Buster®. Chester Schwartz, Monroe township. officers calf and corn club®. Millard Schwartz, Monroe township; calf (Club. Mrs. Helen Mann, county 4-H club leader, and Merwin Miller, supervisor of the Dairy herd improvement association, will accompany the group to Purdue. An interesting program has been arranged for the Round-Up-Harold Kolter Hurt In Auto Accident Harold Colter of this city was painfully Injured in an auto accident Saturday night at about 11 o'clock when the car in which he and three boys companions front Fort Wayne was forced off the road on a (curve near that city. The local young man received a gash on hie right forearm which required four stitches to close. The other man were uninjured except for a severe saklng up. The car in which they wore ridiug was forced off the road by an oncoming auto and overturned in the dicth. Mr. Holter's injury wits dressed at the Methodist hospital in Fort Wayne.

American And Other Foreign Legations At Addis Ababa Are Attacked By Ethiopians

COUNCIL WILL RECEIVE BIDS City To Receive Bids For Equipment For Third Time The city council will meet in extra session at 2 .-'.'clock Thuroday aternoon and receive proposals for the furnishing and installation of a 2,000 KWH turbine, condenser, switchboard and exciter at the City Light and Power plantThis will be t.he third time that the council has received bids on the electric generating equipment. The project is being financed by a PW A grant, not exceeding 149.800. and by the electric department of the mun-Icipal utility. The estimated cost f.-xr the whole project, including an addition to the building is approximately SIIO,OOO. Contract for the building has been awarded and approved by PWA to the Indiana Engineering and Construction company of Fort Wayne, on a low hid of $9,450. Work has n. t started on the building, pending approval of contracts for the turbine and other equipmentThe two former proposals received by the city were rejected by PWA in Washington for reason that bids on the turbine were identical. The turbine bids totaled $50.44'0'. City officials are hopeful that bids received this time will be approved by PWA. The cr.unc-11 was advised by F. M. Logan, state PWA director to re-advertise for ibid®. The PWA grant is equal to 45 per cent of tlie entire co«t of the project. Although tlie council can recommend the awarding of contract® and selectcion® of equipment, ap p. val of PWA must be obtained before formal contracts are signed. The regular meeting of the council will be held Tuesday evening at the city hall. o Treasurer Office To Close Tuesday The office of the county treasurer will be closed all day Tuesday, County Treasurer Jeff Leichty stated today. T -day. May 4. was the final day for the spring payment of the 1936 current taxes, without paying the delinquent penalty. The office is to be closed tomorrow. as has been the cuetom, to permit the office force to balance the books, which is expected to cover the greater (part of the week, according to Mr. Leichty. The last day for spring payments passed with a fairly heavy amount of business. Saturday was the heaviest day experienced by the office, with the corridors of the court house lined with prospective payers after tlie office had become jammed to capacity. —o — WEATHER Generally fair south, mostly Cloudy and unsettled north portion tonight and Tuesday, somewhat warmer east and south portions tonight and south Tuesday. LEOTA ERHART DIES SATURDAY Mrs. Harry Erhart Os French Township Dies Saturday Night Mrs- Leota Jane Erhart, 38, died Saturday at 9 p. m. at Decatur. Death was due to complications. The deceased was born October 2, 1897 a daughter of James and Lydia Dailey Steele. She was married, Aug. 4. 1928 to Harry Erhart. She had resided in French township for the -paet six years'. Surviving besides the husband are two children, a son Carl and a daughter Maxine; three sister® Mrs. L. H. Horner of Mendon, Ohio, Mrs. John Kessler, Ohio City, Ohio, Mrs, Howard Weller of near Monroe; two brother®, Nate and D. M. Steele, both of Van Wert, two halfbrothers, Ray Steele of Ogden. Utah and Joss A. Lansing Michigan. Funeral faervicee will be held Tuesday at 1 p- m. at the home and at 3 p. m at the United Brethren church in Rockford. Rev. H. H. Meckstro.tb will have charge of the service®. Burial will be in the Riverside cemetery. (

Long Hunt Ends i J \ 11 <<p> X EZo/ZtZi Captured while stepping into an auto with another bandit and a i ■woman at New Orleans. La., Alvin Karpis. Public Enemy No. 1, ha® been rushed to St. Paul. Minn., to ; face trial in the Hamm and Brem- ■ er kidnapings. Karpia has been | sought for the last few years by | i G-men and police of every state in | I the Union. LANDON NEEDS PRIMARY VOTES California, South Dakota Primaries To Bear Influence Washington, May 4. —(U.K) —Gov. Alf M. Landon's drive fowartl the Republican presidential nomination carries him tomorrow to vital primaries in California and South Dakota. Reverses in those states would hurt Landon even though ; they might not stop him. Maryland commands immediate I interest of Democratic politicians | with today's presidential primary. | Col. Henry C. Breckinridge of New I York is entered against President I - Roosevelt. Maryland's delegation i to the Republican national conven- ] tion probably will be pledged to I the "favorite son” candidacy of Gov. Harry Nice. With votes to deliver on the convention floor, Nice might be able to make a deal for the vice presidential nomination. The GOP will put an easterner on the tail of their ticket this year. Top position is assured for the west with Landon the favorite as of today. Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R„ Mich., is rated as strong dark horse contender. Frank Knox, of Illinois, Sfen. Frederick Steiwer, of Oregon, and Sen. William E. Borah are in the field. Mr. Roosevelt's success in the Maryland primary is discounted in advance. He swamped Breckinridge last week in Pennsylvania. But Republican voters in South Dakota and California may brighten or tarnish the political prospects of outstanding GOP leaders. California Democrats have a choice among three slates of delegates pledged variously to President Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair of the “end poverty in California" (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) St. Agnes Sodality To Honor Mothers The members of the St. Agnes sodality of St. Mary’s Catho'ic church will entertain the (mother® of the congregation at a party Thursday 1 evening in the Catholic school auditorium. Cards and other entertainment will be provided. A lunch will be served- The party is given in observance of Mother’s day. o I Grants Petition To Settle Claim i , Judge Huber M. DeVoss today , granted a petition filed by the ad- • ministrator of the eetate of William L- Guilder, to accept SSOO a® full settlement of all claims ajjainat i Robert W. BainMr. Guilder died at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday, April 20, as the result of injuries i sustained in an automobile accident . near Geneva, the day before. His ! car crashed headon with one driven ■ by Mr. Bain of Union Mill®, La Porte county. /

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Many White Persons Are Reported Killed When Inflamed Natives Stage Attacks Today. ASK FOR AID (Copyright 1936 .by United Press) Pillaging natives, inflamed by impending Italian occupation of Addis Ababa, attacked the American and other foreign legations : today. Many white persons wore I killed or wounded as they stood I off the crazed natives. A stalwart little wand of Amorileans in the United States legation I compound fought off one attack I by looting Ethiopians, but was en i hard pressed tha,’ an appeal had Ito be made to (the British for a I machine gun and soldiers. Two native women in the i American quarters were wounded. Previously Mrs. A. R. Stadin. wife | of an American missionary doctor, j had been killed by a stray bullet. All regular communications had failed long ago as Emperor Haile Selassie fled for Jerusalem and i'the natives pillaged and burned i down much of the city. The story | of bloodshed, rioting, and chaos in • the capital was pieced together from terse dispatches sent over United States. British, and French i diplomatic wireless stations, ini eluding the accounts of Ben Amos i and James L. Rohrbatigh of the United Press, only Amercian corI respondents in Addis Ababa. The I other American news services were represented by foreigner®. Restoration of order awaited 'arrival of the triumphant Italians, i Native contingents already were | encamped on the outskirts of the | city. They waited there for the main column, headed by Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Latest announcements in Rome said this force was 21 miles awa.y. Plight of the handful of Americans barricaded in the legation compound was told graphically in i messages to Washington from ! Minister Cornelius Van H. Engert. Ethiopian bandits attacked at 9 ' a.m. AU the white women except I Mrs. Engert had been taken to the ■ fortified British compound prev- ; iously. She was In tlie garden i when the natives opened fire. I Some of the men had gone to aid a hospital. Ames and Rohrbatigh were out to get firsthajid news of the Italians. With revolvers, rifles, shotguns, swords, and spears, the few remaining Americans beat off the attack, killing or wounding at least one bandit. Then the infuriated natives returned. Engert twice tried to send an appeal for help to the British, four (CON TINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Autos Collide Here Saturday A car driven by Andrew Sether, coming out of an alley on Monroe street between Second and Third street® was struck by a car driven by Neal S. Sells of Hoopeston, Hilinote. The Sell® car was damaged considerably. No one was injured. Tlie accident occurred Saturday. THREE LOCAL PERSONSHORT Three Decatur Young; Persons Hurt At Fort Wayne Three local persons were injured in week-end traffic accidents. Henry Kolter, 21. Rachel Smith. 20 and Clarence Smith, 24. all of this city, were injured in an auto wreck . in Fort Wayne early Sunday nv'.rning. The car in which the young people were riding crashed into the cement abutment at Pontiac s treet, . inflicting minor injuries on all three. Kolter received a laceration on hie right arm. Miss Smith sustained a laceration on right hand and . Smith received a slight ecalip laceration. They were taken to the Methodist hospital in that city. After i their injuries had been treated they , were released. ( Clarence Smith, one of the party : seems to ibe running in a streak of > misfortunes having been injured in i an auto accident recently in which t one was killed and another seriously injured.